I’ve reached 6.2kg in weight loss. Read more
I’ve got the sniffles today and I think it’s either a touch of the flu that Yasu has or hayfever. My jaw is getting better slowly though today it’s still swollen and sore, just not aching anymore.
A couple of weeks ago I told Yasu that if he even felt minutely like he was getting a sore throat or the flu, then he should tell me right away because I have some antibiotics left over from earlier in the year and one of those will stop it from coming on.
So he agreed he would tell me. But what do you know, last night as he was getting into bed I noticed he was sniffling and he had a rattly chest so I asked him if he had a cold. His reply – “yes, I’ve had it for 3 days”.
Thank you dear for letting me know, not. I said to him, I told you to let me know asap when you think you might be getting a cold so you can take the antibiotics. He just looked at me blankly, meanwhile I felt like throttling him.
So I had to get him to use my ventolin and seretide inhaler for asthma as his chest was so bad, then I had to dose him up with antibiotics. Then he told me he had a fever – we don’t have a thermometer, how un-Japanese of us – but he was feeling really cold, so I got out extra doona’s and turned on the central heating. Then he insisted he didn’t want to be by himself, so I stayed with him until he fell asleep.
Anyway, so somehow I’ve ended up with a touch of it, but I’m already taking penicillin for my jaw, so I hope that fixes it.
I feel like someone sapped all my energy today. The weather is rainy and overcast, but I don’t think that’s it. I’m not sure if anyone else feels this but when I get a cold I just feel like someone dropped a ten tonne weight on my head, and hungry, I am soooo hungry! I feel as if I could eat and eat and eat.. lots of junky food too that I haven’t craved in ages. Luckily we don’t really have any junky food in the house so I’ll maybe have to pig out on dried fruit and nut mix or yoghurt. :/
While we’re on this topic, when I went to the doctor for my jaw, I also got the results of my fasting blood test. It showed I have Impaired Glucose Intolerance, which is very common for women with polycystic ovaries.
It basically means that the next step is diabetes if I don’t lose weight. He said I have a one year window of opportunity (before he tests again) in which to reverse it and go back to normal. He advised me to make the most of it.
He did however take my measurements again and he was surprised to find that I had lost 11cm from my waist and 5.2kg, so I’m happy about that at least. I know I still have far to go, but these little small “yay’s” along the way is kind of what keeps me going. The weight loss is slow, and it’s coming off in bits here and there, but the main thing is that even on the days when I have been bad and had some choccy, I haven’t put it back on.
I have to motivate myself more to exercise, because I have been coasting along. I think if I did more exercise I could lose more weight, but it’s just motivating myself that is the problem. Sometimes it gets really boring doing it by myself too. I’m waiting for the gym down the road to get Zumba, it’s meant to be starting in 4 weeks time. I think this could be a fun way to get some exercise that won’t be too hard to do. There is nothing that puts me off more than complicated exercise.
So yeah, not a very exciting post today… but that’s life hey. :)
I’ll leave you with a picture of some cats that sneeked into my yard yesterday and peeked at me through the window while I was on the computer. Cheeky little buggers. :)
I'm just wondering if 2 black cats means double bad luck? ;)
Never mind my dirty window *cringe* lol... but look at this Mr Nozomi Cat
Everything is going very well for me at the moment and I’m just feeling really blessed by it all. :)
I also had another epiphany about weight loss – I was still eating too late.
When I first started this lifestyle change I was eating dinner at around 5pm but as Yasu started coming home later and later, I waited to eat dinner with him no matter what the time, because that’s what I have done ever since we got married – despite him telling me to eat when I want – I just never feel full when I eat by myself, a total mental thing on my behalf.
Anyway, the last two nights I have eaten dinner at 5pm and now have dropped another 400 grams, to 4kg weight loss. So I feel as if I’ve got the flow going again. It’s all a big learning curve about my body. :)
Having a good day today. Went for a drive with Yasu earlier to his workshop and drove past the beach – the water was too cold for a swim. Then we came home and had lunch and we pottered around in the garden for a while and now Yasu is watching the Sumo on tv. :)
- I went to Yoga on Wednesday night and the teacher, Sui, told me I should give it a go anyway because when she was in a car accident and broke her wrist and had whiplash she still did yoga, and it actually made her better and strengthened her wrist and neck. So I did give it a go, and it actually wasn’t too bad. I didn’t push myself, only did as much as I could.
- Halfway through the yoga I was called into the AGM that was happening in the next room and stood for election onto the community centre committee, and won! I was sworn in that night and am now officially a member of the committee. Our next meeting is on 18th November to decide on a few projects coming up and to set who will be doing what. I’ve already learned a whole heap of stuff, it’s really interesting.
- One of the women in my life skills course, I found out today, is a clairvoyant and a healer. It also turned out she is going away and needed someone to stay at her beautiful house up in the hills for 4 days (weekend) while her and her husband go away. She has a mini-farm with sheep, dogs, a horse, goats, chooks, and cats and it overlooks the whole of Perth. Anyway, Yasu and I will be staying at her house over the weekend she is away, so it will be like a mini holiday of our own! Add to the fact I just love animals, so it really will be a pleasure.
- I have also been talking with a friend in Melbourne and we have made plans for me to go there in February to go to the Soundwave Music Festival together. Our favourite band, Faith No More, is playing after reuniting again, so it will be a blast. I will be staying for a few days so I can hang out with him and his wife and their two young sons who I am yet to meet! It’s been about 7 years since my last visit.
- As well as that, we are heading to Adelaide for Christmas, driving over, to stay with a high school friend of mine who just moved there with her partner, because of his work. So it’s all very exciting!
- Melbourne Cup Day is coming up on Tuesday and I’ve been invited to my Reiki Master’s house for a Cup Day party, all our ‘spooky’ friends will be there, so it will be a fun day!! Plus which one of us will be the better psychic and pick the winning horse??
- I’ve put in an early order for a good pair of sunglasses for xmas from Yasu… anyone have any ideas about good brands? I’m totally new to this… I’ve never owned a really good pair, but with the sun so bright now, and summer on the horizon, squinting is making the skin around my eyes go wrinkly so I really need to get some good ones, the darker the better.
- On the weight front, I’ve dropped another 3kg and 5cm from my waist. I’ve had some small-er clothes in my wardrobe for a while, and I can now fit into them, so yay. I haven’t really changed what I have been eating consciously, but I noticed once I started drinking 2.5 litres of water per day, and walking 3.2km per day, the craving for sweets has gone out the window. I also eat far less than I used to, it’s as if my body needs less, and I definitely can feel now when I’ve had enough.
- I bought a papa-san chair online, you know those round chairs on a frame you can sink right into? I bought one from someone else, but it was practically brand new, hardly ever used, beautiful black suede and so big and comfy. I have been meditating in it every day, and it’s sooo good. I mean I can get really comfy and the meditation is just so enhanced by that. And it was only $30 so a very good buy!
- Somehow I keep winning competitions. I won some energy saving lightbulbs last week, and this week I won a potato chips competition I entered online and received a big box of mixed potato chips from the company! I also entered another competition, and was one of 400 people worldwide to win a bunch of cool prizes which I was just notified about last night, so I’m waiting to receive them by courier!
- I felt it was time to come off the anti-depressants (Luvox) I have been on for the past 9 years. In the beginning I was taking 11 different pills in the morning and 11 pills at night. 8 of those were anti-depressants because at 22 I was suicidal after a personal incident. From there it all just snowballed and I ended up with all these pills after seeing a psychiatrist. Over the last few years I’ve taken myself off most of them, and have, for the last 2 years been on only 1 anti-depressant per day. That’s a big step down from 22 pills per day. Anyway, I felt that now is the time to come off totally, but with anti-depressants you can’t stop just like that because the withdrawal symptoms are hell. If even I missed one pill by forgetting to take it, the next day I would suffer hellish withdrawal symptoms until I took the pill and even then it would take half a day to work. The symptoms are feeling like you’re going to vomit, or actually vomiting, dizzyness, headaches, anger, extreme sleepiness, nausea etc. It’s just like with any other drug. So bit by bit I’ve been coming off. It means for me, cutting the pill by myself unless I want the rigmarole of buying a lesser dose pill, but instead I just cut off a bit, one pill for me is 100 miligrams, so cut the end off it becomes 80 mg, then abit more 70, etc, until now I’ve got it down to 50. I’m hoping within the next week or so I can get it down somewhere to 30. Hopefully by mid-november I can be off them altogether. It’s somewhat fast the way I’m doing it, usually it would be slower than this, but I’ve been giving myself reiki every day and it really helps with the symptoms, so I’m not feeling it as much. Also, when I get determined about something, nothing is going to make me stop, so the willpower that I need to get me through is strong, thankfully.
Phew!!
